media: saa7146: hexium_gemini: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in hexium_attach()
authorZhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
Fri, 3 Dec 2021 15:40:30 +0000 (16:40 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 10:04:42 +0000 (11:04 +0100)
commitc3d14b3585b78a007ee99066698655662c61e4bd
tree5396a5be583bcffe8d59dc94166d80d74652c84a
parent84155d2b06060e13655495d295f70d39f5dd7144
media: saa7146: hexium_gemini: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in hexium_attach()

[ Upstream commit 3af86b046933ba513d08399dba0d4d8b50d607d0 ]

In hexium_attach(dev, info), saa7146_vv_init() is called to allocate
a new memory for dev->vv_data. saa7146_vv_release() will be called on
failure of saa7146_register_device(). There is a dereference of
dev->vv_data in saa7146_vv_release(), which could lead to a NULL
pointer dereference on failure of saa7146_vv_init().

Fix this bug by adding a check of saa7146_vv_init().

This bug was found by a static analyzer. The analysis employs
differential checking to identify inconsistent security operations
(e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths and confirms that the
inconsistent operations are not recovered in the current function or
the callers, so they constitute bugs.

Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
the bug.

Builds with CONFIG_VIDEO_HEXIUM_GEMINI=m show no new warnings,
and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20211203154030.111210-1-zhou1615@umn.edu
Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_fops.c
drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c